I appreciate your response to my column in which I called you out on your fraudulent and monstrous allegation of an Israeli “genocide” against the Palestinians. In your response, you speak of the death of a Palestinian child named Ibrahim, whom I too mourn.

But while you lay the blame on Israel, Ibrahim is a clear victim of Hamas’ campaign of ‘child sacrifice’ – as Elie Wiesel termed it – in Gaza. You cite Immanuel Kant. Surely you’re familiar with Kant’s definition of immorality, where human beings are treated as a means rather than an end. By that definition, Hamas is the ultimate immoral organization. Hamas wants Ibrahim dead. Their leaders call upon children to offer their “shoulders and chests” as martyrs. Dead Palestinian children serve no purpose other than a propaganda victory against Israel.

Excerpt of Ms. Wolf’s open letter (click to enlarge).

Where is your outrage that Hamas uses UN schools to fire rockets? Where is your outrage that Hamas uses residential homes as weapons caches. In fact, Naomi, where is your outrage for the tens of thousands of children murdered by Bashar Assad, the untold numbers of Arab children killed in Iraq by ISIS, and the slaughter of innocent Muslim girls murdered by Boko Haram in Nigeria? Why does Israel’s war of self defense alone awake your ire? The list of Islamist terror organizations with absolute contempt for Arab life – let alone Jewish life – is tragically endless.

Israel is a just and righteous democracy that affords more rights and freedoms to its Arab citizens than any country in the Middle East. In Israel, Arab women are protected under the law from honor killings, a practice that is common under Hamas and, sadly, throughout the Arab world. In Israel, gay Arabs are protected from murder under false allegations of collaboration. In Israel, Arab-Israeli youth are afforded health care, top-tier education, and a promising future. My daughter and son are both students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and they, as well as any other student, can attest to the vast numbers of Arab students gaining advanced degrees at Israel’s universities.

Compare that to the vile future offered by Hamas to Palestinian children which consists, in essence, of choosing between being a suicide bomber or a human shield. I am amazed that you, Naomi, a Western Jewish woman with liberal values could somehow defend the monsters of Hamas who have made it a crime for married couples to even hold hands on the beaches of Gaza. I am amazed that in this third war between Israel, a liberal democracy, and Hamas, a fiendish totalitarian terrorist theocracy, you would find yourself defending the terrorists of Hamas and indicting the righteous democracy that is Israel.

You say that your accusation against Israel of genocide against the Palestinians is nothing more than parsing words. Sorry. I won’t let you get away with that. Respectfully, it is a lie and a blood libel. Millions of Jews have been murdered over the past two thousand years because of false allegations of mass murder, like poisoning the wells of Europe or drinking the blood of Christian children.

I see you have never read the Hamas charter, a true call for genocide against the Jews with its repeated calls for the annihilation of Israel and its call for a time when even trees will ask Muslims to kill Jews hiding behind them. Find me one Israeli leader that would even dare speak that way of the Palestinians?

I shudder, Noami, to think about what you would have said about Winston Churchill during the Second World War. His response to the rockets being fired at London was the total destruction of German cities like Dresden and Hamburg, flattened utterly, something Israel has never even contemplated. I shudder to think what you would think of Franklin Roosevelt who ordered the pulverizing of Berlin and Tokyo and its civilian residents, let alone Harry Truman who dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Here I offer you a simple challenge. Since the actions of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Truman were infinitely more deadly in vastly greater numbers than Israel’s pre-warning of civilians via leaflets, phone calls, and other alarms, then at the very least, Naomi, be consistent. Say definitively that in the Second World War the United States was a genocidal power, seeking the extermination of the German and Japanese people. Say definitively that the aggressor was not Hitler but the Americans and the party guilty of genocide was not Hitler but Roosevelt. If you do so, I will at least know that there is a consistency to your thought and I will applaud you as the victor in this exchange.

I suspect, however, that you would never say such a ridiculous thing. In the Second World War it was Hitler and Germany who were genocidal and the United States which saved freedom and liberty, even though, sadly and tragically, hundreds of thousands of German civilians died.

Ms. Wolf’s original post (click to enlarge).

But unlike the allies of the Second World War, Israel does not target civilians. The deaths of children in Gaza which we all lament must be placed firmly at the feet of Hamas who use these children as human shields.

I’m amazed at your efforts to allegorize Israel and the promised land as an idea rather than a place. Do you not live in a home in New York which you lock at night, Naomi, so your children can be raised in safety? Well, Israel is the same. All the Jews seek is a tiny sliver of land – one sixtieth the size of all Arab countries – to lay their heads down in safety at night.

It’s a shame that Hamas does not seek the same for the Palestinians. Hamas could easily have used the largest per capita aid any organization has ever received – four times the Marshall Plan – to build homes, schools, hospitals, and Universities for the Palestinians residents of Gaza. But you saw what they did with even their concrete, Naomi. They abused all the building materials they received by constructing tunnels to kill Jews.

Put some tape on the mouth of Ms. Wolf, she supports terrorism which make her a terrorist. Another self-hating Jewish idiot. I have no words to say to this low-life. She probably has a PHD from Columbia..

I find it so terrible that people will take a horrible situation and...through that terrible combination of ignorance & ego, make a bad situation worse.

Ms. Wolf. The word "genocide" has already been defined. In all of your imagined great level of fame, even you don't have the ability through the power of your recognized name and force of hubris to re-define a word.

And, don't minimize the genocide of your family (and mine) by using the Holocaust as an excuse for your ignorance, Ms. Wolf. You write about the Geneva Convention's definition. Well..here it is:

http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html

I have read it over and over, and...I am having a difficult time finding out how any ol' average war falls within that definition, "...acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,..." Sorry, but where did Israel work to destroy "in whole or part"...any group?

Was it when they dropped the flyers warning of attack?

Was it when they made the robocalls warning of attack?

Was it when they sent the texts warning of attack?

Was it when they dropped the dummy bombs on the buildings in order to warn the human shields of attack?

When was that, Ms. Wolf? I mean, you are using that word and you buttressed your defense by choosing the Geneva Convention's definition. So...? Could it be that someone who has put to print so many words does not understand the very simple definition of some of them?

The problem with some people is that there's no talking to them. That's on all sides of this issue, but today I'm pointing that charge at you, Ms. Wolf. You're wrong, and in your insistence to prove your opinion, you are just making things more difficult for everyone as other then grab on to your errors and use them to buttress their own mistakes.

Well done. You've become part of the problem.

But, you don't care. I mean, one great aspect to age & fame is to not have to endure self-analysis and make change, right? So, congrats. Must be nice.

Lol naomi claims her family was half wiped out by hitler and cohorts yet she can't see that Hamas and it's cohorts seek to do the same to all Jewish people, and not only that, to wipe out all Christians , oh and what about Arabs who aren't of the same tribal sect, oh and what about Arabs who are of the same sect, oh and I forgot about the Arabs own daughters and children, hmmmmmm Naomi, you are one screwed up chick?!!!

hamas is pure evil, plain and simple. it's not just all the jews they want dead, even the son of hamas explained they want to kill every non-muslim after the jews. they told their ppl to stay when israel begged them to go. this idea of siding w/ hamas is so insane it's laughable. u have to really hate jews to side w/ them. wolf is a complete and utter disgrace who needs to disappear from the public eye and never have any influence on anyone ever again.

Ms. Wolf should hang her head in shame. Each word that the Rabbi spoke should have hit her hard in her heart-of-hearts, where that conscious of hers should be. Every word he spoke was true. What the Rabbi didn't say was what a hypocrite she was for mourning the children in Palestine (rightly so), while her voice has been one of the loudest raised in the right to kill thousands of innocent children....abortion.

August 13, 2014 at 4:01 am

I was going to write up a response to Miss Wolf, but this gentleman said it better, and in ways I couldn't possibly articulate. I hope she listens. I hope you all do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ugsv5u-sW0

I understand the rabbi and Naomi from both views ....but I stand more on one point with the. Rabbi ..Israel has a right to exist and to have a safe place to lay there head ..Hamas is an instigator of war in which israel has been more patient with her enemies than any other democracy in this century ...

It appears that Naomi Wolf just entered The William Jefferson Clinton Parsing Of English Language Hall of Fame.
NW writes in defending herself against The Observer claiming she believes a Jewish State should not exist:
"Reposting so this cannot be further distorted: Shahar Sror and many others are misreading my quote." If this is what a "Jewish state" requires of us, it is not worth it to us in my view." "It" refers to "this" not to "Jewish state.' "This" is actions corroding our souls -- -- taking those actions is not worth it. Basic grammar...clear in the context."
Oh Dear. We seem to have descended into the realm of "IT" again. When will they learn? Well, for semantics sake let me take a stab at this. Does Naomi mean to say if she had written more clearly that :
" If these actions corroding our souls are what a Jewish State requires of us, then corroding our souls is not worth corroding our souls????"
See that does not pass the grammar or sniff test.
Our Naomi has done a semantic two step here. She evades the meaning behind her second usage of "IT" and tries to lump its usage to mean the same as the first "IT" as well as 'THIS."
But what is implied in any reasonable reading of that sentence is that what is..."not worth "IT", is not actions corroding our souls but rather the value or merit of a Jewish State.
The observer was not incorrect in its assessment. They just did not mince words where Naomi Wolf slices and dices and grinds them up into an inedible hash of baloney.

Ask her why she insists on blocking people on her PUBLIC FB page and refuses to even tell her "community" who she blocked and show evidence of how they broke her "community guidelines". If she "rarely" blocks people then why not be transparent and say "I had to block Christine Mann and here is the post where she crossed the line" because she has no evidence because I did not cross a line and she is embarrassed and doesn't want people to know what a fraud she was and I was showing evidence. So instead she just "disappeared" me and erased 5 years of my comments. We had an excellent repoire for years it wasn't until I started seeing the hypocrisy and presenting her evidence that she got nasty. I guess that's how sociopaths/narcissists work. they are nice as can be until you expose them.

she is ABSOLUTELY saying Jews don't deserve a state and she certainly does not think they have a right to defend themselves. Oh wait they can defend themselves as long as they don't hit any of the targets set up by Hamas. If Israel did that they would be gone. They have the right to defend themselves and its not right that Hamas can hold them hostage by using civilian shields. In fact when someone point blank asked her whether Israel had a right to exist she refused to answer the question and just talked around it. She will not concede w/o qualifying it that Jews deserve a state.

NTM she DROPPED out of Oxford!!! I was duped by her for years but she is intellectually shallow And she is an unapologetic Marxist while she pretends to be a "Libertarian" and has a "crush on the first amendment". Really You would think she would welcome criticism as a public figure and at least welcome someone who is presenting evidence. I did not personally attack her but eventually in the end I did have to call her out as a fraud because the evidence was overwhelming.

September 10, 2014 at 3:20 am

Ms. Wolf go to a Mosque and wait for the Issue of the Hamas Charter calling for the Genocide of not just the Jews of Israel, but every Jew in the world, is brought up and condemned. Wait a little longer while they condemn ISIS for the rape and slaughter of the Christians, Yazidis, Kurds, Shia, and Sunni they don't agree with in Syria and Iraq. Or the destruction of the Tombs of Jonah and Matthew. Wait a little longer for their condemnation of Boko Haram and Al Shabab for their kidnapping, rape, and murder. See if they mention one thing about the 4000 rockets Hamas has fired into Israel, while you blather on about a child Hamas uses as a Human Shield for purely propaganda purposes, and Israel does their best to target Hamas Leaders and armed fighters, who fire those 4000 rockets. You disgust me. I spit on your lack of love for the Jewish People and ISRAEL. May the spirits of those who died in the Holocaust come and make your comfortable dreams into miserable nightmares, while you defend those who would commit another Holocaust against you and me.

Unfortunately the impression being given from the video evidence is that an immense cruel campaign is being waged against the people of Gaza . This can be construed as a genocidal action ( read many of the comments supporting this action in the Jewish press . Hatred is very much in evidence )

lol I love the comparison drawn between Hamas Qassam rockets and Nazi V2 rockets.
In regards to the challenge of making America seem like the aggressor of WW2, it could be considered, in the case of Japan, that an argument can be made that the US instituted crippling sanctions and insulting conditions during negotiations with the Japanese to back them into a corner prior to Pearl Harbor, then allowed Pearl Harbor to occur in order to gain popular support for joining the war.
I'm not making that argument; I'm just pointing out that these kinds of things are very complicated and almost never as they appear on the surface.

I wonder how the Native American Indians would have faired if their wars against the European invaders was a leveled playing field? Has anyone ever heard of a Jew make any comparisons with Native Americans?